“I’m Sorry About David…”

“I’ve got a really good story for you,” my editor told me the other day in the office kitchen.

I was a newspaper journalist for 25 years before coming to Guideposts. There’s not a whole lot that surprises me. But this, she assured me, wasn’t the usual fare. “This guy’s done a video,” she said. “Watch it. You’ll see what I mean.”

It had been shared to the Mysterious Ways Facebook page by Karen Byerley Knutsen. A cell phone video of her father, Kenneth Byerley. I pulled it up online. Ken was an older, affable-looking man in a faded yellow T-shirt that read Clowning to Children. He sat in a brown armchair with a sheaf of papers in front of him. This guy…a video star? Curious, I hit play.

“I’m going to talk about the love of God,”